One-son Policy

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AP Statistics

This is a simulation of the "One-Son Policy." To control a countries population, the leaders decide to allow families to continue to have children until they have a son. Under this policy, some families may only have one child. Other families may have many children. In the simulation, we simulate the number of children in 100 families.

One-son Policy

What kind of probability model would best describe this scenario?

Estimate the median number of children a family will have.

How will the mean number of children in a family compare to the median number of children found in #2?